The 2012 Check List for America’s Survival

Many people make resolutions to start the year, but I think a list of things that must be done to protect and preserve the Republic should be tallied…

1. President Obama must be defeated in 2012 and the obstructionist Democratic Party must lose power in the Senate to ensure both houses of Congress will be Republican and in a position to initiate real change.
2. The Environmental Protection Agency must be reined in with increased Congressional oversight and legislative limits on its rule-making capacity. Having fulfilled its 1970 mandate to clean the nation’s air and water, it should be scaled back to the maintenance of these functions.
3. Americans, despite the administration’s efforts to redefine and distract us, must keep clearly in mind the threat of Islam to the nation and the world. A Middle East in turmoil lays ahead for 2012.
4. To jump-start the economy, taxes and spending must be reduced across the board. A tax on consumption, rather than income would be a good start. Only 49% of Americans currently pay income taxes, the lowest in decades.
5. Obamacare must be repealed should the Supreme Court fail to rule that the Commerce Clause takes precedence over its requirement that Americans must purchase health insurance or be fined for not doing so.
6. A serious restructuring of Social Security and Medicare must be undertaken. Older Americans who have paid into the system—it is involuntary—must be ensured their benefits will be paid, but younger citizens should have the freedom and responsibility to structure their own retirement and health plans.
7. Access to the nation’s vast reserves of coal, natural gas, and oil should be increased and encouraged. Oil companies should be encouraged to build more refineries via tax credits and removal of “environmental” obstacles.
8. Congress needs to identify and fund the repair to the nation’s aging infrastructure.
9. Utilities should be encouraged via tax credits and other incentives to expand the national “grid” for the distribution of electricity.
10. Term limits for Senators and Representatives should be added to the U.S. Constitution in the same fashion the presidency is limited. Salaries, pensions, and perks should be capped. A permanent political class is a danger to citizens.
11. The Federal government should be downsized with the elimination of the Departments of Education, Labor, and Energy, along with the Environmental Protection Agency. These powers should be returned to the individual States. (10th Amendment)
12. The nation’s military which has been significantly reduced in size and structure should be expanded with attention to the upgrade and increase of its naval fleet and aircraft.
13. Congress should reject and rescind all legislation based on “global warming” or “climate change” as the former has been demonstrated to be a hoax and the latter is meaningless insofar as the climate is beyond the control of humans.
14. The United States should significantly reduce its contribution to the United Nations and refuse to ratify any of its treaties.
15. Tort reform should be instituted to reduce the costs of health care.
16. The corporate tax rate should be significantly reduced from its present rate, one of the highest in the world, to increase expansion, new jobs, and competitiveness.
17. Public service unions should be illegal. The federal government does not permit such unionization and neither should states.
18. National Public Radio should no longer be funded. The “government entities” of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be eliminated.
19. The federal government should be restricted or significantly limited from the acquisition of more of the nation’s landmass.
20. Strenuous efforts must be undertaken to reduce the national debt and deficit. A devalued dollar impoverishes everyone.

These are just a few changes which, if implemented, would go a long way to reducing the ills associated with a federal government grown too large, subject to crony capitalism, and corruption.

As John Adams said, “Let us disappoint the men who are raising themselves upon the ruin of this Country.”

© Alan Caruba, 2012

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And prepare yourself for the worst and to help others!! – Preparedness and Survival

Energy… The Costs and Why It Is Going to Go Up and Change Our Lives

An audience of small business owners and energy moguls gather to discuss about their concerns with the administration’s policies toward small business and energy.  A video worth watching because it will affect all of us in a negative way if we and they don’t stand together and stand up!

Video: Energy Concerns and Small Businesses

Video:  It Begins… WOMAN ARRESTED For Protesting Smart Meter Installation

It’s an Obama World…
You will do as you’re told. You will keep your temperature at an Obama-approved level… Despite the double-standard set by our president.

A woman was arrested this past weekend for not allowing officials to install a smart meters in her neighborhood.

SmartMeter.org reported:

An activist protesting against the installation of ‘smart’ meters was arrested today for civil disobedience. Amy O’Hair was arrested at Monterey and Edna in the Sunnyside neighborhood of San Francisco at 9.30 on Saturday 18 June 2011.

She sat on the hood of a smart meter installation truck to prevent installation of smart meters and refused to move. The police were called and arrested her. It was early in the morning, and few people were around, but a bystander waiting at a bus stop gave support. Amy was taken to 425 Seventh Street (Bryant Police station) to be cited.

The Obama EPA-approved smart grid will track CO2 emissions and internet use.

The Smart Meter Rebellion

Senate Panel Approves Democratic Climate Bill Over GOP Boycott

“We, the United States and her people, are in big trouble when the government continues forward with destructive policies and laws, often passed in the middle of the night, but definitely passed against the will of the majority, no matter what the people say or do!!

There comes a time when we must realize that we are at war with our own government and decide to stand-up or be taken over”

This dangerous radical and her cronies is in the process of steeling you freedom!!

Senator Boxer’s Eco-Power Scheme

Warning: "We Are At the 11th Hour!"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A controversial climate change bill cleared its first hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, allowing President Barack Obama to tout progress in the run-up to next month's global warming talks in Copenhagen.

Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ignored a Republican boycott and used their majority to approve the legislation that would require U.S. industry to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 20 percent by 2020, from 2005 levels.

"I think this is a great signal for Copenhagen that there's a will to do what it takes to advance this issue," committee Chairman Barbara Boxer told reporters after her panel voted.

The committee vote also came as international negotiators held a contentious climate change meeting in Barcelona, their final session before the Copenhagen summit starts December 7.

But Democrats are likely to fall far short of their goal of passing legislation in the full Senate before Copenhagen as Boxer's bill lacks enough support for full approval.

Senator John Kerry, who co-authored the committee-approved bill with fellow Democrat Boxer, is leading an effort with some Republicans and the White House to draft a compromise.

With all seven Republicans chairs empty, 11 Democrats voted to approve the bill. Only one Democrat, Senator Max Baucus, who chairs the powerful Senate Finance Committee that also will review climate legislation, voted no.

AREAS OF COMPROMISE

Before casting his vote, Baucus said he was committed to passing a bill to tackle global warming. But he said the goal of cutting carbon emissions from utilities, factories and oil refineries by 20 percent by 2020 was "too high."

Instead, Baucus said he would seek a 17 percent goal, with a "trigger" to hike it up to 20 percent if other countries "play by the same rules" in cutting their carbon emissions.

A climate bill that narrowly passed the U.S. House of Representatives in June sets a 17 percent target for 2020.

Baucus' vote against the bill reflected the difficulties ahead in crafting a measure that would have to attract the 60 votes needed for passage by the Senate.

Other senators from Midwestern and Southern states heavily reliant on coal will seek their own changes, which could upset liberals now supporting the bill.

There is widespread expectation in the Senate that for any climate control bill to pass, it will have to contain new government incentives for expanding U.S. nuclear power-generating capacity and offshore oil drilling, along with money to help develop clean ways to burn coal, which is in abundant supply in the United States.

Republicans complained that a detailed economic analysis of Boxer's bill had not been done -- a charge Democrats rebutted -- and that any work on the bill should await such analysis.

By Richard Cowan

We are in a war!! The greatest fight for our freedom America has ever seen, since 1776!!!

“We need a new American Revolution”… Matthew Spalding~

We Still Hold These Truths – Matthew Spalding

There are rumors that Pelosi and crew may be adding and trying to sneak through legislation on energy and student loans with the PelosiCare Bill

Remember Rahm and Hillary Quotes: “Never Waste a Crisis!” – Today… Anti-ObamaCare Tea Party in Washington, Possible HC Vote in Congress, Senate Panel Approves Democratic Climate Bill Over GOP Boycott. New Focused on Shooting at Fort Hood?!?

Boxer and Kerry Reintroduce Cap and Trade…

Cap and Trade Rears Its Ugly Head Again…

Senate climate bill tougher than House version

Kerry: "I Don't Know What 'Cap And Trade' Means" Somebody need to tell both Senators John Kerry, whose if a major player in the Corrupt Tide Foundation and Barbara Boxer who is busy selling American parent’s right to ‘parent their own’ children to the United Nations that “We don’t know what ‘Re-Election people who ignore their constituents and work for their own ideals and gains means!”

Time to turn up the heat again against Cap and Trade, but these two (Senators Boxer and Kerry) really have to go!

Inhofe: Boxer using 'corporate prostitutes' to sell climate bill

By Jordan Fabian - 10/07/09 03:15 PM ET

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is using "corporate prostitutes" to "intimidate" Congress into passing climate change legislation, a key Republican senator said Wednesday.

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who is the ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chided committee chairwoman Boxer's claim that her climate bill would bring billions of dollars in private investments to the economy.

"You can find a few corporate prostitutes out there that stand to make a whole lot of money on this thing," Inhofe told conservative radio host Steve Malzberg today. "What they're trying to do is to intimidate congress into passing it."

The conservative senator argued that Boxer and bill co-sponsor Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) are so intent on passing the bill in order to relieve the inevitable pressure on the White House from people angry about tax increases included in the bill.

"And so the president, Obama, doesn't want people to say 'hey, why did you do this regulation?

You're responsible.' Well, he wants to intimidate us so at that point he can say 'no Congress did it,'" Inhofe said.
Inhofe predicted, however that the bill would not pass Congress.

"It's not going to pass, they don't have the votes," he said, adding that Democratic leaders would unlikely use controversial budget reconciliation tactics to pass cap-and-trade.

Congressional Democratic leaders have threatened to use reconciliation to pass healthcare legislation.

Inhofe predicted that the climate bill would only get 30 votes in the Senate based on his vote count of last year's Warner-Lieberman climate change legislation.

The Hill

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John Kerry: Awesome recession is helping the environment

Democrats’ environmental proposals are an attack on capitalism. That is a fact. But don’t take my word for it. Ask John Kerry.

As often happens when disingenuous people let slip the truth, Kerry admitted in no uncertain terms the other day that he sees economic prosperity as the enemy of the environment, and left no mystery as to which side he takes.

I was for the recession before I was against it.

Kerry and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California) have proposed a new draft for a cap-and-trade bill with exceedingly stringent restrictions on carbon emissions. During a hearing on the bill , Kerry made the astounding statement that the recession has been the environment’s best friend, and he couldn’t be happier about it:

Let me emphasize something very strongly as we begin this discussion. The United States has already this year alone achieved a 6 percent reduction in emissions simply because of the downturn in the economy, so we are effectively saying we need to go another 14 percent.

What did Kerry just unwittingly admit? He admitted that cap-and-trade advocates and like-minded global warming believers see economic prosperity as a huge source of the supposed problem. That’s why they’re proposing the perfect solution – from their perspective – in the form of a massive tax increase directly on industry.

Nothing discourages productive economic activity like confiscatory taxes on said activity. The same people who lament the loss of manufacturing jobs in the United States now seek to multiply these losses many times over by making it economically impossible for manufacturers to operate.

The taxes aren’t designed to encourage manufacturers to run cleaner shops. Taxes don’t do that. Technology does that. If the technology was sufficiently mature and affordable, they would have it now. All things being equal, no onewants to pump dirty emissions into the air if given a reasonable alternative.

So when Democrats propose to pressure them into cleaning up their emissions with crippling taxes, it makes about as much sense as when they suggested the Iraqi government was sitting around eating bon-bons while the U.S. did all the heavy lifting, but would surely get serious if the U.S. threatened to leave.

People want to do things that are in their own best interests. You don’t hammer them into doing these things with taxes. Quite the contrary, you try to remove economic barriers that may be preventing them from doing these things.

But that’s not the goal of cap-and-trade supporters. Kerry has given away the game. The goal is less productive economic activity, because the fact of the matter is that productive economic activity produces carbon, and no arrogant member of Congress or anyone else can change that fact.

But the recession, hey, that’s working like a dream. Carbon emissions are down 6 percent. Damn. How many more big industrial conglomerates do we have to put out of business to get to 20 percent?

If they didn’t know full well they were going to kill jobs, they wouldn’t be peddling this “green jobs” nonsense – a notion thoroughly dismantled on Sunday by Bloomberg’s Kevin Hassett.

Cap and trade means a less productive economy, and that’s by design, because a growing private sector economy is the enemy of the Democrats’ political agenda. Their hope, of course, is that all the taxes they can collect will allow them to bestow more largesse on their constituencies with jobs either in the public sector or publicly funded.

This completely ignores, of course, the fact that you can’t keep taxing companies that you put out of business, but Sen. Kerry has never quite closed the logic loop on that one. You need to generate revenue to pay taxes, and you can only do that by running a company profitably. Where does Sen. Kerry think all these rich industrialists got their money? Does he think they either inherited it or married some rich widow?

Maybe someone needs to tell him those avenues aren’t available to everyone.

But if Sen. Kerry doesn’t have the slightest idea how economic value is created, he certainly seems to know how to destroy it, and as he has just acknowledged, he apparently can’t wait to get right to it.

Update: John Holdren, President Obama’s top advisor on science issues, agrees. Or at least he did in 1977, when he wrote a textbook with fellow traveler Paul Ehrlich titled “Ecoscience,” in which he explicitly called for zero economic growth. CNS News dug this up back in July.

People can change their minds about things in 32 years, of course. Maybe someone should ask Holdren if he’s changed his. If so, perhaps he could go have a talk with John Kerry.

Dan Calabrese – the Northstar

For more news on energy and the environment, visit www.climatewire.net.

(Obama) Kerry and Boxer Despair and and Negative Transformation that you can believe in. These radicals need to go!!

The Kerrys are largely involved with the notoriously radical Tides Foundation

Kerry, Boxer and Obama are all pushing the global warming hoax and and Cap and Trade… a huge power grab and tax on America.

Barbara Boxer and Secy Hillary Clinton are leading the charge to pass the global children’s rights treaty, which will help the United Nations Usurp American Parent’s Rights… On Parental Rights

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The Goal…

Green Hell

Red Hot Lies

'Not One Single Dime'? ... Yeah, Right!

Is Obama about to break a promise not to raise taxes on the middle class? Mike Huckabee sounds off to Greta.

While Candidate Obama repeatedly promised “NO” tax increases of any type for middle class Americans… for anyone making less than $250,000, both Geithner and Summers said it is too early to say… but they will do whatever it takes. Most Americans are saying, “How about stop spending, giving back the stimulus money that never made it to Main Street to fix the recession and no more huge expensive bills like Cap and Trade and ObamaCare…? which will only mean more debt and taxes.”

If you remember… Bush 41’s broken promise of “Read my lips, no new taxes” cost him re-election.

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This is a rush transcript from "On the Record," August 3, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN FOX NEWS HOST: Tonight: Will President Obama raise taxes on the middle class? Now, that depends on who you ask. President Obama says no.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year...

-- which includes a 98 percent of small-business owners, you will not see your taxes increase one single dime under my plan.

Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains tax, no tax. We don't need to raise taxes on the middle class!

You will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat, not one single dime.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VAN SUSTEREN: Well, that was the president, and over the weekend, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was far less concrete.

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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, HOST, ABC'S "THIS WEEK": The president has said that taxes won't go up for any Americans earning under $250,000, but it doesn't appear he's going to be able to keep that promise if you're going to bring the deficit down.

TIMOTHY GEITHNER, TREASURY SECRETARY: George, again, we can't make these judgments yet about exactly what it's going to take and how we're going to get there. But the very important thing is -- and no one is going to care about this more than the president of the United States -- is for people to understand that we do not have a choice in the country...

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VAN SUSTEREN: White House economic adviser Larry Summers was asked about Secretary Geithner's comment. Does Summers think a new round of taxes is coming for middle-class Americans?

LARRY SUMMERS, WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC ADVISER: There's a lot that can happen over time, but the priority right now -- so its never a good idea to absolutely rule things -- rule things out, no matter what.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VAN SUSTEREN: Today, press secretary Robert Gibbs tried to clear up the confusion.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY:Let me be precise. The president's clear commitment is not to raise taxes on those making less than $250,000 a year.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VAN SUSTEREN: So is the middle class going to get a tax hike or not? Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee joins us live. Good evening, Governor. And Governor, it seems that the president and his press secretary say no to taxes on the middle class, but then just yesterday, two of his cabinet secretaries are saying -- are suggesting something very different. So any idea what's going on?

MIKE HUCKABEE, HOST, "HUCKABEE": Well, Robert Gibbs had to dive on that grenade today because it was going off. And Summers and Geithner did the unthinkable. They spoke the truth. They said what everybody with a brain understands. You can't keep spending money like this and run up these deficits without at some point having to pay for it.

Tax revenues are down. The economy is hurting. People don't have jobs. When they don't have a job, they're not paying taxes. And at some point, the president is stuck with either having to do what he's been doing a lot lately, and that's breaking promises, or he's going to have to continue to tank the U.S. economy.

Now, what I think he ought to do is to start looking at ways, rather than buying everybody a car, is suspending the payroll tax for a particular period of time and putting that money into the hands of consumers so they can make the decision. That would make a lot more sense.

VAN SUSTEREN: Well, the Associated Press is reporting that we are in the biggest tax revenue drop since 1932, that individual income tax receipts, how the government feeds itself, essentially down 22 percent. Corporate income taxes down 57 percent. And we're spending like drunken sailors. That's not a very good recipe.

HUCKABEE: Well, I think it's a real insult to the drunken sailors. They don't spend more than they have in their pocket. And they don't spend out to, you know, their next 20 paychecks. We're spending out into the next millennium. And even the health care proposal -- when you hear how much this is going to cost, what they're not telling you is that the real cost factors come in years 11 through 20, not years 1 through 10. So the deficits are piling up, and Barack Obama's answer to that is, Let's pull out our wallets and spend some more money (INAUDIBLE) let's pull out the wallets of American taxpayers and spend some more money.

VAN SUSTEREN: What do you think the discussion's been in the last 24 hours here in Washington between the White House and Treasury secretary and Larry Summers?

HUCKABEE: My guess is that there was some woodshedding going on, just realizing that this really erupted in a very unpleasant way. All these members of Congress going home to recess, every time they show up at a town meeting, they're getting an earful. It's almost like they forgot who they worked for. They don't work for Nancy Pelosi. They don't work for Harry Reid. And they don't work for Barack Obama. They work for the American taxpayer, and the taxpayers are infuriated because they have enough sense to know that this spend-a-holism that we have seen is simply not working out. More Americans out of jobs. And Greta, at some point, if you're really strapped for cash, the first thing you do is you stop spending what you don't have.

VAN SUSTEREN: Well, what people don't realize, too, is that if we -- if we end up having to print more money, we're going to get a -- we're going to get an inflation. And some people think, Well, as long as I'm working, my wages are going to go up with the inflationary prices. The problem is, is that now that we're part of a global economy, is the rest of the world's not going to want to buy our prices at these -- buy our goods at these higher prices. So it's a much more serious problem, inflation, than even 25, 30 years ago when we had inflation.

HUCKABEE: It's a huge problem. You just mentioned that people don't want to buy our debts. We have pretty amazing things, the Chinese talking about a new monetary standard and not the U.S. dollar. These are unprecedented kinds of conversations taking place because people simply don't have confidence. Geithner went to Asia, tried to tell them that everything is fine, and they literally laughed at him when he tried to tell them that everything was just great with the American economy. That's a horrible situation for us.

VAN SUSTEREN: Governor, thank you. And don't forget to watch the governor every Saturday and Sunday night at 8:00 PM Eastern. And guess what the name of the show is? "Huckabee." I don't know how he got that name.

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Grass-roots revolt in Austin, TX: “Just say no!” to Obamacare; Pennsylvanians boo Sebelius & Specter, “How can you manage health care when you can

Democrat Rep. Lloyd Doggett went home to Austin, Texas, and heard from his constituents about the planned government health care takeover.

Message: “Just say no!”

This taxpayer counterinsurgency is exactly what I talked about on the ABC This Week panel earlier today. The long, hot recess is underway. Make yourselves heard. Mark your calendars for the nationwide August 22Recess Rally. Prepare to be demonized, of course.

And don’t let up until socialized medicine goes down:

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In Philadelphia, Kathleen Sebelius and Arlen Specter get an earful (the YouTube user who posted the video calls the protesters “crazies.” You’re going to get a lot of that. Just carry on):

Better video and report from Andrew Monaghan here. Here’s one question from a woman who ticks off failed government program after failed government program and concludes, “How Can You Manage Health Care When You Can’t Manage Cash For Clunkers?”

By Michelle Malkin • August 2, 2009 07:50 PM

Posted: Daily Thought Pad

Senator Inhofe Calls for Inquiry Into 'Suppressed' Climate Change Report

Administration Buried Report Questioning Global Warming

Republicans are raising questions about why the EPA apparently dismissed an analyst's report questioning the science behind global warming.

EPA analyst Alan Carlin raised questions about the impact of global warming on areas like Greenland. Shown here is an iceberg off Ammassalik Island, Greenland. (AP Photo)

A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency's alleged suppression of a report that questioned the science behind global warming.

The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to reduce global warming. Carlin's report argued that the information the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined.

"He came out with the truth. They don't want the truth at the EPA," Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., a global warming skeptic, told FOX News, saying he's ordered an investigation. "We're going to expose it."

The controversy comes after the House of Representatives passed a landmark bill to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, one that Inhofe said will be "dead on arrival" in the Senate despite President Obama's energy adviser voicing confidence in the measure.

According to internal e-mails that have been made public by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Carlin's boss told him in March that his material would not be incorporated into a broader EPA finding and ordered Carlin to stop working on the climate change issue. The draft EPA finding released in April lists six greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, that the EPA says threaten public health and welfare.

An EPA official told FOXNews.com on Monday that Carlin, who is an economist -- not a scientist -- included "no original research" in his report. The official said that Carlin "has not been muzzled in the agency at all," but stressed that his report was entirely "unsolicited."

"It was something that he did on his own," the official said. "Though he was not qualified, his manager indulged him and allowed him on agency time to draft up ... a set of comments."

Despite the EPA official's remarks, Carlin told FOXNews.com on Monday that his boss, National Center for Environmental Economics Director Al McGartland, appeared to be pressured into reassigning him.

Carlin said he doesn't know whether the White House intervened to suppress his report but claimed it's clear "they would not be happy about it if they knew about it," and that McGartland seemed to be feeling pressure from somewhere up the chain of command.

Carlin said McGartland told him he had to pull him off the climate change issue.

"It was reassigning you or losing my job, and I didn't want to lose my job," Carlin said, paraphrasing what he claimed were McGartland's comments to him. "My inference (was) that he was receiving some sort of higher-level pressure."

Carlin said he personally does not think there is a need to regulate carbon dioxide, since "global temperatures are going down." He said his report expressed a "good bit of doubt" on the connection between the two.

Specifically, the report noted that global temperatures were on a downward trend over the past 11 years, that scientists do not necessarily believe that storms will become more frequent or more intense due to global warming, and that the theory that temperatures will cause Greenland ice to rapidly melt has been "greatly diminished."

Carlin, in a March 16 e-mail, argued that his comments are "valid, significant" and would be critical to the EPA finding.

McGartland, though, wrote back the next day saying he had decided not to forward his comments.

"The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision," he wrote, according to the e-mails released by CEI. "I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office."

He later wrote an e-mail urging Carlin to "move on to other issues and subjects."

"I don't want you to spend any additional EPA time on climate change. No papers, no research, etc., at least until we see what EPA is going to do with climate," McGartland wrote.

The EPA said in a written statement that Carlin's opinions were in fact considered, and that he was not even part of the working group dealing with climate change in the first place.

"Claims that this individual's opinions were not considered or studied are entirely false. This administration and this EPA administrator are fully committed to openness, transparency and science-based decision making," the statement said. "The individual in question is not a scientist and was not part of the working group dealing with this issue. Nevertheless the document he submitted was reviewed by his peers and agency scientists, and information from that report was submitted by his manager to those responsible for developing the proposed endangerment finding. In fact, some ideas from that document are included and addressed in the endangerment finding."

The e-mail exchanges and suggestions of political interference sparked a backlash from Republicans in Congress.

Reps. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., and Darrell Issa, R-Calif., also wrote a letter last week to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson urging the agency to reopen its comment period on the finding. The EPA has since denied the request.

Citing the internal e-mails, the Republican congressmen wrote that the EPA was exhibiting an "agency culture set in a predetermined course."

"It documents at least one instance in which the public was denied access to significant scientific literature and raises substantial questions about what additional evidence may have been suppressed," they wrote.

In a written statement, Issa said the administration is "actively seeking to withhold new data in order to justify a political conclusion."

"I'm sure it was very inconvenient for the EPA to consider a study that contradicted the findings it wanted to reach," Sensenbrenner said in a statement, adding that the "repression" of Carlin's report casts doubt on the entire finding.

Carlin said he's concerned that he's seeing "science being decided at the presidential level."

"Now Mr. Obama is in effect directly or indirectly saying that CO2 causes global temperatures to rise and that we have to do something about it. ... That's normally a scientific judgment and he's in effect judging what the science says," he said. "We need to look at it harder."

The controversy is similar to one under the Bush administration -- only the administration was taking the opposite stance. In that case, scientist James Hansen claimed the administration was trying to keep him from speaking out and calling for reductions in greenhousegases.

By Judson Berger - FOXNews.com

Click here to read Carlin's report.

FOX News' Major Garrett contributed to this report

Posted: Daily Thought Pad

Related Resources:

Out With A Whimper: California AG vs. Automakers on Global Warming

"With far less fanfare than it generated when it was launched, California's battle to hold six car companies liable for contributing to global warming has come to an end. In a ruling on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted the state's June 19 motion for voluntary dismissal, ending California's three-year fight to extract hundreds of millions of dollars from the auto industry." [David Bario, AmLaw; Amanda Bronstad, NLJ] Our earlier coverage of the Bill Lockyer/Jerry Brown nuisance-law folly is here, here, here, and here.

PointofLaw.com - POSTED BY WALTER OLSON ON JUNE 25, 2009 AT 11:09 AM

Let us pay attention and realize… it is not about global warming; it is not about saving the planet, it is not about… It is about big government, money, control (of us), re-making America, and taking our freedoms.

It is our job to pay attention, stand-up and fight for what is right, including for keeping everyone of our freedoms!!!

Some Quotes that were never truer…

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” --Ronald Reagan

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be. An informed (and involved) populace is necessary for democracy to survive!!!" -- Thomas Jefferson

“If you are not part of the solution, or are part of the problem!” –American Proverb

First they came…

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

Then they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
I did not protest;
I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
I did not protest;
I was a Protestant.

Then they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.

Poem by Pastor Martin Niemöller

“And If you did not stand up… You have only yourself to blame!!!”

So let us all stand up and save our Country, our freedoms, our families and ourselves!!

Posted: Daily Thought Pad

New Energy Taxes Will Hobble Economy

Congress will soon consider massive new taxes and fees – which could easily exceed $400 billion – on America’s oil and natural gas industry, yet this level could produce devastating effects on our economy, all when America can least afford it.

These unprecedented taxes and fees would reduce investment in new energy supplies at a time when nearly two-thirds of Americans support developing our domestic oil and natural gas resources. That would mean less energy, and it would cost thousands of American jobs, actually reduce local, state and federal revenue, and further erode our energy security.

Learn more and tell Congress to oppose these proposals to impose $400 billion in tax hikes on America’s oil and natural gas companies. By using SocialCapital, you can voice your opinions to public officials and members of Congress about key energy issues via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and more.

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